Texas Tech Outreach & Engagement Office recognizes Davis College faculty
By: Norman Martin
Texas Tech University's Outreach & Engagement Office has announced that a research team that includes Anastasia Stellato, an Assistant Professor within Texas Tech's Department of Animal & Food Sciences, has been selected to receive a 2023 President's Emerging Engaged Scholarship Award.
The project, titled “Supporting Animals and Veterans Through Enrichment,” involves brief interactions between student veterans and shelter dogs to explore if student veterans' report an improvement in mood states post-interaction and if shelter dogs display reduced behavioral indicators of stress during the interaction compared to in shelter assessments. Results of the exploratory project will be used to inform future intervention research aimed towards developing a standardized program to concurrently support veteran and shelter dog well-being within the Lubbock community.
An expert in companion animal behavior and welfare, Stellato joined the Texas Tech faculty in 2021. The Canadian native's doctorate in epidemiology is from the University of Guelph's Ontario Veterinary College. Her research program broadly focuses on promoting the health and welfare of companion animals through improving human-animal interactions within various applied environments.
In other action, the Outreach & Engagement Office recognized Muntazar Monsur, an Assistant Professor within the Department of Landscape Architecture, as a member of the inaugural cohort of the Texas Tech Faculty Fellows Mentoring Program in Engaged Scholarship Program.
An expert in measuring environment-behavior relationships in children's environments, Monsur joined the Texas Tech faculty in 2019. The Bangladesh native received his doctoral degree in design from North Carolina State. He was recently selected as a member of the university's Institute for Inclusive Excellence Program.
CONTACT: Clint Krehbiel, Dean, Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Texas Tech University at (806) 742-2808 or Clint.Krehbiel@ttu.edu
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